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Military families who want to keep adult kids on Tricare face higher fees

The Wall Street Journal reports on how military families who wish to keep their adult children on their health plans are facing higher costs than those in the regular insurance market. Also, ABC News reports on research findings that compare the health of military veterans with current military and civilians.

11 Oct 2012

Inscopix to introduce nVista HD at Neuroscience 2012

Inscopix, Inc. will announce the launch of nVista HD, an end-to-end solution for in vivo brain imaging in freely behaving mice, this weekend at Neuroscience 2012 (SfN).

11 Oct 2012

As election day approaches, acrimony highlights many House and Senate races

Short on time and tempers, House and Senate candidates in tight races are turning snarky and personal in their attacks on their opponents. … Across the land, candidates are launching incendiary attacks on each other in the final, fretful days of an election year colored by margin-of-error races that have refused to budge.

11 Oct 2012

Researchers develop interference therapies to knock down gene that drives MCL

Three thousand new cases of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), a form of blood cancer, appear in the United States each year. With a median survival span of only five to seven years, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, this disease is devastating, and new therapies are sorely needed.

From Integrated DNA Technologies 11 Oct 2012

African governments take steps to increase political support for NTD control

"This past June, more than 100 participants gathered in Accra, Ghana, for the Regional Stakeholders' Consultative Meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases hosted by the WHO-AFRO to discuss the challenges, resources requirements, and goals to controlling and eliminating Africa's NTDs," the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog reports.

11 Oct 2012

Study disputes common assumption on conflict-related sexual violence

A new study by the Simon Fraser University-based Human Security Report Project (HSRP), released today at the United Nations headquarters in New York, finds that there is no compelling evidence to support a host of widely held beliefs regarding wartime sexual violence.

11 Oct 2012

Study finds how MAIT cells recognize products of vitamin B synthesis from bacteria and yeast

An Australian research team has discovered how specialised immune cells recognise products of vitamin B synthesis that are unique to bacteria and yeast, triggering the body to fight infection.

11 Oct 2012

Schumer offers views on how deficit talks should tackle entitlement, tax reform

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., noted that, among Democrats, there is a lot of opposition to raising Medicare's eligibility age but also interest in overhauling entitlements as part of the push to reach a grand bargain.

11 Oct 2012

Stroke on the rise among young people

New research reveals that stroke may be affecting people at a younger age. The study is published in the October 10, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

11 Oct 2012

'Innovation, markets, people, political leadership' needed to achieve food security

"Our global food security challenges are daunting: food price spikes and increasing food prices look set to continue unabated, around one billion are suffering from chronic hunger, and we must feed a growing population in the face of a wide range of adverse factors, including climate change," but "I believe there is reason for optimism," Sir Gordon Conway, professor of international development and agricultural impact at Imperial College London, writes in the Huffington Post U.K. "Impact" blog.

11 Oct 2012

Transplanted neural stem cells able to produce new myelin in children with PMD

A Phase I clinical trial led by investigators from the University of California, San Francisco and sponsored by Stem Cells Inc., showed that neural stem cells successfully engrafted into the brains of patients and appear to have produced myelin.

11 Oct 2012

Revamped South African National AIDS Council begins work reviewing national plan

South Africa "recently unveiled" a "newly reformed" South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), "coinciding with the announcement that the country has achieved universal access to HIV treatment," PlusNews reports.

11 Oct 2012

Exercisers can burn as many as 200 extra calories in just 2.5 minutes

Time spent in the drudgery of strenuous exercise is a well-documented turn-off for many people who want to get in better shape. In a new study, researchers show that exercisers can burn as many as 200 extra calories in as little as 2.5 minutes of concentrated effort a day—as long as they intersperse longer periods of easy recovery in a practice known as sprint interval training.

11 Oct 2012

Blog interviews medical researcher about proposed blueprint for AIDS-free generation

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog interviews Kenneth Mayer, founding medical research director of Fenway Health, as part of its "Blueprint" series, which examines issues surrounding the creation of a blueprint for an AIDS-free generation commissioned by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July.

11 Oct 2012

Women respond much better than men to treatment of CFL with rituximab

Women respond much better than men to the treatment of chronic follicular lymphoma with a monoclonal antibody that targets CD20 (rituximab). These are the findings of a multi-centre, Austria-wide study by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft medikamentöse Tumortherapie (AGMT) carried out under the supervision of the University Department of Internal Medicine I and study leader Ulrich Jäger, which has now been published in the highly respected journal "Haematologica".

11 Oct 2012

Two Texas Baptist Universities join challenge to health law's contraception coverage mandate

News outlets report on various developments related to the implementation of the health law.

11 Oct 2012

Psychological interventions improve quality of life, reduce total care costs

Evidence presented at the recent "European Federation of Psychologists' Association" (EFPA) conference showed that psychological interventions do not only improve quality of life but are also cost-effective. Return on investment of health promotion at work is 10:1.

11 Oct 2012

Gender Action report examines international bank spending on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS

Gender Action recently released a new report, titled "Banking on Health: World Bank and African Development Bank Spending on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa," according to the organization's website.

11 Oct 2012

New research lists cell stiffness as possible biomarker for metastatic ovarian cancer

New Georgia Tech research shows that cell stiffness could be a valuable clue for doctors as they search for and treat cancerous cells before they're able to spread. The findings, which are published in the journal PLoS One, found that highly metastatic ovarian cancer cells are several times softer than less metastatic ovarian cancer cells.

11 Oct 2012

African countries at risk of social unrest, famine stemming from food shortages, report warns

"African countries are most at risk of social unrest and famine stemming from food shortages and rising prices, according to risk advisory firm Maplecroft," Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

11 Oct 2012

Medical News

Military families who want to keep adult kids on Tricare face higher fees

Inscopix to introduce nVista HD at Neuroscience 2012

As election day approaches, acrimony highlights many House and Senate races

Researchers develop interference therapies to knock down gene that drives MCL

African governments take steps to increase political support for NTD control

Study disputes common assumption on conflict-related sexual violence

Study finds how MAIT cells recognize products of vitamin B synthesis from bacteria and yeast

Schumer offers views on how deficit talks should tackle entitlement, tax reform

Stroke on the rise among young people

'Innovation, markets, people, political leadership' needed to achieve food security

Transplanted neural stem cells able to produce new myelin in children with PMD

Revamped South African National AIDS Council begins work reviewing national plan

Exercisers can burn as many as 200 extra calories in just 2.5 minutes

Blog interviews medical researcher about proposed blueprint for AIDS-free generation

Women respond much better than men to treatment of CFL with rituximab

Two Texas Baptist Universities join challenge to health law's contraception coverage mandate

Psychological interventions improve quality of life, reduce total care costs

Gender Action report examines international bank spending on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS

New research lists cell stiffness as possible biomarker for metastatic ovarian cancer

African countries at risk of social unrest, famine stemming from food shortages, report warns

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